Ariane 5 ECA launched two communications satellites: Nilesat-201, an Egyptian broadcast satellite, and RASCOM-QAF1R, a pan-African telecom and broadcast satellite that replaced the earlier RASCOM-QAF1 after a helium leak shortened its life.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.7 T
- Flight
- 26th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 4 August 2010, 20:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2010-037
- Launches in 2010
- 39th of 74
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